Homemade Crispy Springrolls Recipe (video)

[Saviolo]

Ooops! Got distracted and forgot to put my video up today! This is a simple and delicious recipe for vegetarian spring rolls. You could even make these vegan if you get the right wraps and don't use the egg wash to seal them up. We use a pretty classic vegetable medley for these, but you could also add shrimp or even some nice sliced char siu pork to these if you wanted. They're quite neutral and versatile.

These go well with a simple dipping sauce of soy sauce and sesame oil, or you could throw a little bit of hot sauce into some apricot jam to make a delicious replacement for plum sauce (or just use plum sauce!). If you don't have a deep fryer, it is just as easy to drop these into a dutch oven for deep frying, or even to shallow fry them. They do sometimes develop air pockets (or steam pockets) that make them hard to flip in the oil, so shallow frying may actually yield better results sometimes!

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[Kali]

1. what is the difference between spring rolls and egg rolls?

- obviously the texture of the wraps, but what makes them different?

[Saviolo]

3. Primarily the wraps.

As well as the way they are wrapped. Eggrolls typically have a bit of a closer texture, instead of shredded veggies, it's usually a bit more of a paste or farce filling. We do intend to do a video on eggrolls sometime soon.

The wraps on eggrolls are usually much thicker than spring rolls, and they bubble in different way, but remain a little chewy. Usually they are just rolled once and sealed, and then pinched on the sides instead of getting the burrito wrap like spring rolls get.

[Backseat Driver]

2. When I was younger, I prepared a mixed Asian meal for New Year's Eve dining.

I made spring rolls from a similar recipe. Teriyaki pork ribs. Sweet and sour chicken stir fry, and some sort of entree w/rice noodles served with plum wine from Whole Paycheck, LOL! After all the rich foods for Thanksgiving and Christmas, this veggie-rich meal was soooo delicious.

Then back to the pork loin and sauerkrat "good New Year's luck" menus for New Year's Day. One year when all our kids were much younger, we actually cooked the meat and sauerkraut on a grill one chilly day on the Lake Erie shoreline, camper foil-packet style, with family friends -- that was one crazy hoot of a picnic...

[Saviolo]

4. Sounds awesome!

Sometimes we make our sous-vide pork char siu, and pair that up with some steamed dim sum we get frozen from a local store that makes them in-house. Soup dumplings, shumai, har gow, etc... plus some homemade spring rolls, and maybe some potstickers. Make a big Chinese food feast!